Spodumene ★★★★

Nothing in this list is craftable in turn, so one Spodumene is a single step: 7 units of material drawn from 2 base items, plus 6 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 710 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 9,374 recipes nest deeper.

1 of the 2 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Raw Spodumene (8:00, 20:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Spodumene is itself consumed by 29 further recipes, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.